The Nazi philosophy of lying to the public prevails in the current administration.
Thomas Sowell
The American Spectator
7/31/2012
It was either Adolf Hitler or his propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, who said that the people will believe any lie, if it is big enough and told often enough, loud enough. Although the Nazis were defeated in World War II, this part of their philosophy survives triumphantly to this day among politicians, and nowhere more so than during election years.
Perhaps the biggest lie of this election year, and the one likely to be repeated the most often, is that the income of “the rich” is going up, while other people’s incomes are going down. If you listen to Barack Obama, you are bound to hear this lie repeatedly.
But the government’s own Congressional Budget Office has just published a report whose statistics flatly contradict this claim. The CBO report shows that, while the average household income fell 12 percent between 2007 and 2009, the average for the lower four-fifths fell by 5 percent or less, while the average income for households in the top fifth fell 18 percent. For households in the “top one percent” that seems to fascinate so many people, income fell by 36 percent in those same years…
…The number who reach all the way to the top 20 percent greatly exceeds the number still stuck in the bottom 20 percent over the years. But such mundane facts cannot compete for attention with the moral melodramas conjured up in politics and the media when they discuss “the rich” and “the poor.”…
Read the entire article at The American Spectator
Update: Gallup: Voters don’t share Obama’s class-warfare priorities
So far, Barack Obama has tried to discuss nearly every issue but the one about which voters care most — jobs and the economy. Obama and his campaign have tried offering distractions such as same-sex marriage, contraception mandates, and hiking taxes on the rich. According to the latest Gallup survey, Obama’s effort has missed the mark entirely…
